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Giving less notice than contract stipulates

  • 04-02-2015 4:38pm
    #1
    Wicklowbob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭


    It looks like I may soon get an offer for a permanent job, probably in the next week or two. However, I am three weeks into a six month contract. There is no chance of this being extended or renewed. I would like to take the permanent job but my contract states I must give 8 weeks notice. What are the potential consequences if I am able to only give 2-4 weeks notice?


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  • #2
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    Legal action, bad reference, damaged reputation as Ireland is a small country, etc.

    Legal action is quite unlikely.


  • #3
    fret_wimp2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭fret_wimp2


    Wicklowbob wrote: »
    It looks like I may soon get an offer for a permanent job, probably in the next week or two. However, I am three weeks into a six month contract. There is no chance of this being extended or renewed. I would like to take the permanent job but my contract states I must give 8 weeks notice. What are the potential consequences if I am able to only give 2-4 weeks notice?

    Any time i have gone for an interview, I have been asked my notice period. I assume if you are close to being offered a job you have by now been asked what your notice period is and if so, you should have told them the truth, 8 weeks.

    If they have not yet asked you, they will very soon in which case you tell them your notice period is 8 weeks,, that its in your contract. You can tell them you will talk with your current employer to see if a deal can be struck, but until that happens, consider the notice period as being 8 weeks.


    You can up and leave and as mentioned legal action probably wont happen, but as mentioned, Ireland is a very very small place, you only really learn how small when you've been working a few years, and even smaller when you work in a particular field/area where you constantly bump into the same people, so dont burn bridges or pick up a bad reputation.


  • #4
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,292 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Eight weeks notice in a six month contract job sounds pretty unreasonable. Unless your skills are specialist enough and you are well enough paid that your new employer should be willing to wait for you.


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